Brock Biology of Microorganisms (15th Edition)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780134261928
Author: Michael T. Madigan, Kelly S. Bender, Daniel H. Buckley, W. Matthew Sattley, David A. Stahl
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17.6, Problem 2MQ
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Nanoarchaeum equitans is known as one of the smallest known organism with the smallest genome of 0.49 Mb among Archaea. N.equitans, a prokaryote is a strict obligatory symbiont of Crenarchaeota, with its host Ignicoccus. In terms of evolution, N.equitans clearly belongs to archaea according to the cellwall which consists of an S-layer and also the 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed the same sequence in many members of the archaea at several locations.
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